ALA Midwinter 2015 LITA Preconference Review: How User Testing Can Improve the User Experience of Your Library Website

Last July, Winona State University’s Darrell W. Krueger Library rolled out a completely new website. This January we added to that new user experience by upgrading to LibGuides and LibAnswers v2. Now, we’re looking for continuous improvement through continuous user experience (UX) testing. Although I have some knowledge of the history and general tenets of user experience and website design, I signed up for this LITA pre-conference to dive into some case studies and ask specific questions of UX specialists. I hoped to come away with a concrete plan or framework for UX testing at our library. Specifically, I wanted to know how to implement the results of UX testing on our website

Emerge

Lightning talk presented at the 2014 LITA Forum. This inspire talk was for my early-career colleagues with titles like Emerging Technologies Librarian, especially those who are at smaller institutions. Created on the fly on the iPad Mini with Haiku Deck

National Gallery of Modern Art

The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) was founded in 1954 at the Jaipur House near the India Gate in New Delhi, India. Today the NGMA holds a permanent collection of over 17,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, and photographs, including most of Amrita Sher-Gil’s work not already in private collections, several hundred works by members of the Tagore family, and more than 6,700 works by painter Nandalal Bose. In 2009, the museum’s exhibition space significantly increased with the addition of several new wings

Civic Action and the Library

1. Civic Action and the Library Tammi Owens Emerging Services Librarian Winona State University Darrell W. Krueger Library CLASP Lecture Series March 26, 2014 2. Collection Space People 3. Libraries Connect thinkers & doers with ideas using collections, spaces, and people. 4. Libraries Must strive to provide strength to our communities. 5. Collection Space People 6. Collection Space People 7. Collection Space People 8. Information literate Being able to “recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.” 9. Information literacy combines a repertoire of abilities, practices, and dispositions focused on expanding one’s understanding of the information ecosystem, with the proficiencies of finding, using and analyzing information, scholarship, and data to answer questions, develop new ones, and create new knowledge, through ethical participation in communities of learning and scholarship. 10. Collection Space Peopl

Is it Real or Just a Trace? Ownership, Ephemerality, and Materiality in Social Art

1. Is it real or just a trace? Ownership, ephemerality, and materiality in social art Tammi Owens Emerging Services Librarian Winona State University Darrell W. Krueger Library ART955, Art as Ephemera UNC-Chapel Hill October 23, 2013 slideshare.net/tammiowens/ 2. Remixers Sharers Bloggers Makers Curators social artists 3. Who owns creativity anything online? 4. Online ≠ Owned Sharing ≠ Stealing Finding ≠ Plagiarizing 5. “… feeds are full of fragments of close friends and strangers, little iridium flares of information, there for a few seconds and gone again. Watch your feed for long enough and get a sense of the quality of rushing flow, of Not Stopping.” Sarah Wanenchak, Dispatches from Ephemeral Social Media, 2013 6. Where does social art exist? 7. Mashups Memes Pins Tumblrs Tweets social art 8. Tweets information flows on 9. Memes culture passes virally 10. Mashups two become one 11. Pinterest curation to remember 12. Tumblr collections with commentary 13. Instagram artful snapshots of daily life 14. Snapchat see it for seconds 15. Are there consequences to social art

Improving the Care of Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome by Implementing Rooming In

Background: Opioid use and drug abuse has led to an increase in fetal exposure to illicit drugs in the United States, putting these infants at risk for developing neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). Parental involvement in the care of these infants during their hospitalization has become an essential part of the treatment process Purpose: The purpose of this project is to implement rooming in for infants with in utero exposure to opioids as a quality improvement practice change. Methods: A literature search relating to improving the care of infants with NAS was conducted. Educational handouts were provided to staff regarding the practice change, and to the parents that described NAS and the process of rooming in. Rooming in was then initiated and data was collected relating to hospital length of stay (LOS), pharmacologic treatment, and breastfeeding. Feedback for this practice change was conducted with a staff survey. Results: Data was collected on 19 infants over a 90-day period. This data was compared to hospital averages previously collected. LOS decreased from an average of 14.4 days in the comparison group to 6.11 days in the study group (P= 0.0004). Pharmacological utilization to treat infants with NAS, decreased from 62% in the comparison group to 5.3% in the study group (P \u3c 0.0001). Breastfeeding rates at discharge increased from 14.1% in the comparison group to 26.3% in the study group (P =0.1891). Discussion: The change in LOS and pharmacological treatment was found to be statistically and clinically significant. It is predicted that LOS and use of pharmacological treatment will continue at this current trend if rooming in continues. Breast feeding rates were found to be clinically but not statistically significant

Practice, Patience, and Persistence: Integrating Growth Mindset Prompts in First-Year Writing Information Literacy Instruction

Overview of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, library, and information literacy program. Discuss the Growth Mindset literature, and how it was integrated into our First-Year Writing information literacy instruction

Take off your jewelry: A ‘simple’ approach to LibGuides design

1. Take off your jewelry: A “simple” approach to LibGuides design ! “Ornamentation is like jewelry. ! Put on all of your best, then take most of it off.” ! K.K. Merker, literary publisher ! Tammi Owens, Emerging Services Librarian! Allison Quam, Reference Librarian! Winona State University! Subjects landing page.! Research Hub landing page.! Course guides landing page.! •  Keep it simple: design continuity, oneclick database navigation, single-page layouts, no dropdowns, no search boxes! •  Make it scannable: place important information in upper right corner, pull eye across page with right-side photos! •  Control cognitive overload: use white space, fewer than 15 links per page, single row of fewer than 6 tabs! •  Resist librarian-ing: use plain language, fewer words, just-in-time resources ! Film Studies subject guide.! LibGuides design team! Tammi Owens, [email protected]! Allison Quam, [email protected]! H. Vernon Leighton, [email protected]! NURS 354 course guide.! WSU Research Hub

Simultaneous spectra and radio properties of BL Lac's

We present the results of nine years of the blazar observing programme at the RATAN-600 radio telescope (2005-2014). The data were obtained at six frequency bands (1.1, 2.3, 4.8, 7.7, 11.2, 21.7 GHz) for 290 blazars, mostly BL Lacs. In addition, we used data at 37 GHz obtained quasi-simultaneously with the Metsahovi radio observatory for some sources. The sample includes blazars of three types: high-synchrotron peaked (HSP), low-synchrotron peaked (LSP), and intermediate-synchrotron peaked (ISP). We present several epochs of flux density measurements, simultaneous radio spectra, spectral indices and properties of their variability. The analysis of the radio properties of different classes of blazars showed that LSP and HSP BL Lac blazars are quite different objects on average. LSPs have higher flux densities, flatter spectra and their variability increases as higher frequencies are considered. On the other hand, HSPs are very faint in radio domain, tend to have steep low frequency spectra, and they are less variable than LSPs at all frequencies. Another result is spectral flattening above 7.7 GHz detected in HSPs, while an average LSP spectrum typically remains flat at both the low and high frequency ranges we considered.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichte

Reference 360: A Holistic Approach to Reference Instruction

Reference 360: A Holistic Approach to Reference Instruction is a chapter in the book Teaching Reference Today : New Directions, Novel Approaches. The book is edited by L. A. Ellis, Editor, (pp.98-117), Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. Publisher\u27s description: Reference and Information Services, if it may still be referred to by this term, is an evolving outreach service in libraries. This is not only due to Google and the Internet, but also other technological advances afford users online access to a plethora of content, free and proprietary. This evolution has also caused a shift in the theories and practices (especially, core functions and values) of reference and information services as library schools seek greater alignment with practitioners and libraries on the forefront of these changes.As academics and practitioners work together to educate library students on the kinds of changes happening in reference and information services, they are rethinking their curriculum and assignments to incorporate real-world challenges adaptive to user needs. Likewise, libraries may work through their regional library consortia to plan professional development workshops or training sessions to teach new skills and methods of approach required for such changing services.Here’s a tool for library school instructors, library students, professional development instructors, and current librarians poised to change, which specifically addresses the pedagogy of reference and information services in flux.https://openriver.winona.edu/libraryfacultyworks/1001/thumbnail.jp